C is two-faced one. During circuit breaker where HR was arrowed to look for volunteers to be SDOs, she suddenly became very polite when asking us to participate. But during other times, she totally bo hiew us one. I pui!

Your progress will be slow. IMDA has many layers, more than typical ministries. Need to be promoted twice just to shed the "Assistant" in "Assistant Manager".

If you want to rise quickly you will have to play the game of courting favour from bosses, taking up more work than the average colleague, and actually delivering good quality work. In IMDA dealing with people is far more taxing than doing the actual work, as instructions often do not make sense, middle managers are lazy or afraid to get clarity and the top boss is either oblivious or abusive.

Good luck.

It most certainly is. The first time the organisation filled out the dream design deliver template,many people tried to paint their vision and talk about how they tried to make this come true. LCH complained to the Directors that people's dreams were not aligned with his vision, and that their efforts on the ground "reflected that people don't know what they're doing". Ever since, everyone started following standard lines with Directors openly reminding officers to use CE's words when talking about their dreams about Singapore's digital future. I felt sad when this happened.

Second this. Already want to resign

Why do we need an "Acting Assistant Chief Executive" in Corporate Group when we already have Cluster Director? He seems to be just...acting? Not sure what's his value add, more like an additional layer in the approval chain to waste our time.

Agree, she only panders to the top, probably explains why she gets promoted fast.
She’s arrogant, only smiles if you are high level stakeholder. She sucks as our BP. Wayang best

heard C the CB sibei smelly also one

There are some staff with tech background, but most at the Junior levels are the blur blur just follow instructions type. It doesn't help that the instructions change very often due to the whims of LCH and the Directors never push back or help staff make sense of what is expected. The Directors will then turn around and ask staff why didn't get the job done, when even they themselves don't understand what is to be done. The DCE has a lot of grand ideas but is completely unable to manage LCH. He just keeps his head down when LCH asks for the opposite of he asked for and let staff figure things out themselves.

I've heard many teams say that when he asks staff for their thoughts, if you repeat what he said, he is very happy. If you disagree with him, he will give you a black face. He favours people who are eloquent/glib even if there is no substance or they are plain wrong. IMDA leadership has degenerated into cronyism. Pretty sad kind of leadership.

happy new year everyone!